09 June 2019
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Are You Looking for 'Real' Life Today? (TMF:1150)

Friday, June 14, 2019
Peace to Live By: Are You Looking for 'Real' Life Today? (TMF:1150) - Daniel Litton
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       Perhaps you’ve been listening to what I have been saying today and you want something different in your life. You want to experience ‘real’ life, truly fulfilling life, and you're believing that the words I have been speaking today contain that life. Jesus sounds appealing to you today. Well, I want those who are not Christian today, or who are not practicing Christians, to realize that God loves you, and he wants to be in a personal relationship with each one of you. God showed his love for everyone some 2,000 years ago by having Jesus die on the cross of all sins of all time. He did that because each of us is born with a sin nature, and we have to accept Jesus' perfect sacrifice on the cross for the forgiveness of our sins, and to be truly made right with God. You see, Jesus can make you free from sin’s power today. He died on a cross and rose from the dead by God's power so that anyone can be forgiven and set free from sin. By believing in Jesus for the forgiveness of the wrongs you have done in your life, you can be at peace with God. He will forgive any and every offense for anyone who comes to him in agreement with him.

Our Words Can Lift Us Up or Tear Us Down (TMF:1149)

Thursday, June 13, 2019
Peace to Live By: Our Words Can Lift Us Up or Tear Us Down (TMF:1149) - Daniel Litton
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       To state it more plainly, our mouths release life to us both in the good times and in the harder times. Our words can make us feel emotionally up, or feel emotionally down. A way we can curse ourselves, and make ourselves feel even worse, is when we image the worst is going to happen in a situation, instead of imaging that good is going to happen. Instead of believing for something good, we believe and are anticipating something bad. Most of us are used to speaking something negatively and watching more negative come, but we need to try speaking positively and watching good things come. I believe you will be amazed by the difference that speaking positively will make for you. But, remember, you have to ‘believe’ that good is going to happen. You have to ‘believe,’ accept it, in your mind. I can say something good, but if I didn’t really believe what I said, it’s not going to have as strong an impact. And if we find it hard to believe that good is going to happen inside our minds, we should go against those thoughts and speak positively anyway.

Saying Bad Leads to Bad in Our Lives (TMF:1148)

Wednesday, June 12, 2019
Peace to Live By: Saying Bad Leads to Bad in Our Lives (TMF:1148) - Daniel Litton
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       Solomon said in the next chapter over, ““Disaster pursues sinners, but the righteous are rewarded with good” (Proverbs 13:21, ESV). Again, if we are sinning with our mouths, being like a sinner, a person who doesn’t know God, we are calling for disaster in our lives—negative things. But, as we are righteous, called by God and justified by him, we should be speaking good things into our lives, which calls for good, and therefore we are rewarded with good things. When things aren’t going like we want them to, we use our ‘faith’ to say something good and then our ‘hope’ to believe that the good we have spoken will in fact come to pass in the future. This is critical. Often we don’t feel like saying good things, but we shouldn’t live by our negative feelings, just saying what our negative feelings want us to say. We have to use our faith to say good things anyway and then hope to believe better is coming for us in the near future. Our mouths release life to us both in the good times and in the harder times. Our words can make us feel emotionally up, or feel emotionally down.

Believing Good Will Happen, Part 2 (TMF:1147)

Tuesday, June 11, 2019
Peace to Live By: Believing Good Will Happen, Part 2 (TMF:1147) - Daniel Litton
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       Again, we are talking about the ‘fruit’ of our mouths, the good things that we say that make our lives better. If we say things like, “I believe I can do this,” when we are doing something that we find difficult, we speak life into our lives, and we bear good fruit from it. If we say things like, “I believe I can do this,” when we are doing something that we find difficult, we speak life into our lives, and we bear good fruit from it. If we say, “I believe my son is going to get better at his football,” again we speak life in our situation. If we say when looking into the mirror, “I look good. God has crafted me, and I am good looking,” we feel better about ourselves. The Apostle Paul taught us that love believes all things and hopes all things (see 1 Corinthians 13:7, ESV). He also said that two of the three most important things in life, attitudes that we can have, are faith and hope. A lot of time we are focused on love, which is good, but there is also ‘faith’ and ‘hope’ which are important for us. We exercise our ‘faith’ when we believe good for ourselves and others, and ‘hope’ when we believe good will happen in the future. This is just not ‘feel good’ stuff I’m talking about, but this is important for us if we want to live successful, happy lives.

Believing Good Will Happen, Part 1 (TMF:1146)

Monday, June 10, 2019
Peace to Live By: Believing Good Will Happen, Part 1 (TMF:1146) - Daniel Litton
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       When we complain with our mouths, God can’t help us. It’s as if he looks down from Heaven and says, “Man, I’d love to help her. But she’s sinning by complaining.” I think many of us are so use to complaining that we have excused it in our minds by saying, “Well, everyone complains. It’s not that bad.” But to God, it’s bad. It’s not utilizing our faith. Proverbs 21:23 states, “Whoever keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps himself out of trouble” (ESV). When we complain, we just add more trouble upon our already current trouble. Again, in Proverbs, King Solomon told us, ““From the fruit of his mouth a man is satisfied with good, and the work of a man's hand comes back to him” (Proverbs 12:14, ESV). Again, we are talking about the ‘fruit’ of our mouths, the good things that we say that make our lives better. If we say things like, “I believe I can do this,” when we are doing something that we find difficult, we speak life into our lives, and we bear good fruit from it.